Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1887-04-29
Give fools their gold 4 knaves their power
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fail;
Who soxvs a field trains a flower,
Or plants a tree. Is more than all.
Seasonable Hints.

we'll prepared and iertilized. Sow grass
seed on the fresh earth after the oats
are in, an roll or brush in the seed.
ToBAcCo.-Attend strictly to the
tobacco beds and see that the grass is
picked out as fast as it appears. and if
the ''ty' is troublesome use fine manure
we'll pulverized and mixed with SCOT.
sulphur aud fine dry sand as a top
dressing The sweeping of the tobacco
house floor, with plaster and little
sulphur is good.
Stock OF ALL KINDs.-Look we'll
to your working horses, as the require
good feed, good grooming and good
quarters now, when they are shedding
their coats and hard work is begin
ming
Mich Cows.-These require liber-
al feeding and attention at this season,
especially those that are fresh and
have young calves.
Farrowing sows require much care
and comfortable dry pens, each one in
pen to herself at least for two weeks
before she is expected to farrow.
Sheep should, if possible, be separ-
ated, and the ewes with young lambs
and those soon to have lambs should
be put to themselves. if possible, on
rye field or good grass, and up at
night in pen where they can 60 un-
der shelter which has dry floor
covered with leaves, pine shutters or
short straw affording clean bedding.
Give them at least once a day turnips
and once day oats and chopped corn
plenty of fresh clean water with
what salt they may want.
PLowING.-Do all the plowing that
can be done this month, and see that
the pillow men do good work, that is,
cut even burrows, we'll turned and
leave no strips between the bottom of
the burrows unturned, which is a very
common fault, that is pot observable to
the casual looker-on, because being at
the bottom is covered by the next fur
row. Let the furrows be of even
depth, not six inches in soft ground
and in hard places three inches. Plow
deep if the soil is deep, but pillow never
less than six inches deep, even if poor
soil is brought up. Let each plowing
of turf land be deeper than when last
the turf was broken until you have
nine or ten inches of mellow soil, full
of humus or decaying vegetable mat
ter. If the subsoil be hard pan we
advise to break it at least three or
faRE inches in each farrow, with the
subsoll pillow following after the turn
ing pillow. Let it be rule never pillow
or harrow land when too wet, if You
arc by wet season forced to wait a
month. If the land is too moist or
holds water, drain it by open bitches
or under drains. 1t will repay any
reasonable outlay of money for this
purpose.
CoRN.-If the weather is good and
your ground in fine order plant corn
as soon as you can. Be sure and get
the best seed corn if your own does
not entirely suit you. But do not
plant all your crop of kind which
you have no personal knowledge of,
however highly it may be recommend
ed. 1t is well to try small quantity
of new varieties, and give them fair
test with the best that you or your
neighbors have. There is no crop which
improves more than corn by careful
selection of seed and occasionally
crossing it with other corn from dis
tance, or acclimatizlng Northern corn,
which sown in our climate becomes a
different article entir'l ly from what it
is in its native home, and adds early
maturity to cur usually late varieties.
We have found all grain from the
North of us, did better the second
year than grain from the South of US
Corn is yet destined to be made far
more prolific and valuable. Its cul-
ture and improvement has been too
long shamefully neglected, but intel
Iigence and well directed experiments
have already done much and given as
surance that 1t will be ere long great
ly increased in its real merit and made
the most wonderfully productive of
any cereal that ever grew.
LUCERNE GRAss.-If PERSONS are
disposed to go into the soiling system,
which, we think, is after all in the
present state labor in our section of
country the better plan, doing away
with so many and so very costly fences,
we would advise our friends to sow
this month Lucerne, it having given
great satisfaction to those who have
tried it in every State south of Mason
and Dixon's Line, and who have sed-
ulously kept it the first year from be-
ing overrun and smothered by other
grasses and weeds. Give it good cul-
ture until it spreads, keep off all other
grass and every weed, and the second
year you will be wonder-struck by the
wonderful forage it will give per acre.
Cutting three or four times and no
diminution that is perceptible at each
cutting of the amount yielded, it is a
sweet and pleasant grass to all stock.
We would urge some of our friends,
especially those who "soil" their stocks
"a system we much admire-to try
an acre as beginning. Wherever it
has been tried it has been perfectly
successful if the conditions about it's
culture ard habits have been faith
fully observed. Good soil, we'll
manured, deeply plowed, nicely pre-
pared, drilled, well cultivated so far
as to keep off weeds and other grasses
for one year, or until the Alfalfa or
Lucerne gets full possession, after that
nothing done to it but an occasional
manuring with we'll rotted stable
manure, kainits, ashes, plaster and
salt once a year and regular moving,
three and may be four times year,
yielding to 2 tons per acre of hay,
but 4 to 6 tons fed green, which it is